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# יָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3238

**suppress** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

suppress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָנָה: vb. suppress oppress maltreat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. suppress (?) oppress, maltreat (NH Hiph. vex with words; so Aramaic Aph. אוֹנִי, but also 𝔗 for Heb. הוֹנָה maltreat; Arabic وَنَى is laxus, debilis fuit, iv. debilitavit, defaligavit, but connex. dub.)— Impf. 1 pl. sf. נִינָם ψ 74:8; Pt. יוֹנָה Je 25:38 + 3 times + ψ 123:4 (v. infr.); suppress (?), sq. acc. ψ 74:8 (dub.; Ges§ 76f); elsewhere oppress; Pt. abs. as adj. הָעִיר הַיּוֹנָה Zp 3:1; subst. f. coll. הַיּוֹנָה oppressors Je 25:38 (but read חֶרֶב for חֲרוֹן, with 𝔊 Ew Hi Gf Ke etc., as 46:16; 50:16); ψ 123:4 Qr לִגְאֵי יוֹנִים proudest oppressors (st. cstr. in superlat., cf. Ges§ 133, 3, R. 1.; yet most follow Kt לגאייונים, and der. from גַּאֲיוֹן q.v. p. 145 supr.) Pf. הוֹנָה Ez 18:12, 16; הוֹנוּ 22:7, 29; Impf. יוֹנֶה 18:7; 2 ms. תּוֹנֶה Ex 22:20; תּוֹנֶנּוּ Dt 23:17; יוֹנוּ Ez 45:8; תּוֹנוּ Lv 19:33 + 2 times; תֹּנוּ Je 22:3; Inf. sf. הוֹנֹתָם Ez 46:18; Pt. מוֹנַ֫יִךְ Is 49:26;—oppress, maltreat, sq. acc., especially of ill-treatment of poor and weak, partic. of the גֵּר, the ‘stranger,’ sojourner, by the rich and powerful, Ex 22:20 (JE), Lv 19:33; 25:14, 17 (H), Dt 23:17; Je 22:3; Ez 18:7, 12, 16; 22:7, 29; 45:8; 46:18; of a foreign oppressor only Is 49:26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the oppressor (3); he has oppressed (2); maltreat (2).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.3.1/#tree)

ה֥וֹי מֹרְאָ֖ה וְנִגְאָלָ֑ה הָעִ֖יר הַיּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* woe.to! \[the.one.who.is\].rebellious and \[the.one.who.is\].defiled the city \[which\] oppresses

*JPS 1917:* Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

[Leviticus 19:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.19.33/#tree)

וְכִֽי־יָג֧וּר אִתְּךָ֛ גֵּ֖ר בְּאַרְצְכֶ֑ם לֹ֥א תוֹנ֖וּ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and (dm) he.will.sojourn with you a.sojourner in land your not you.will.maltreat him

*JPS 1917:* And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3238.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3238/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).